[stylist] Creative nonfiction is not made-up material

[Eve Sanchez]

Sure there is. Even using the word 'tinkering' shows this. Tinkering is
creating, being creative is creating. Creating is not solely done with the
truth or it would not need creating. Hence the lies appear.. It is a lie
spoken when one says he never lies. Diolch, Eve:)

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Bridgit Pollpeter <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Eve,
>
> What you are talking about in this post is historical fiction, which is
> not creative nonfiction. Creative nonfiction is any form of nonfiction
> writing-- memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, autobiography,
> etc.-- that is told using literary devices and techniques like
> descriptive language, metaphor, dialogue, framing, tinkering with POV,
> structure and order, etc. Historical fiction, which is what you
> reference here, is a fictionalized account of true people and/or events
> not intended to be read as nonfiction. Creative nonfiction is usually
> autobiographical in nature in terms of it is about the authors life and
> experiences/thoughts/feelings/opinions, though creative nonfiction can
> certainly be written about a person/place/event other than what is
> personal to an author. There is nothing fictitious however in creative
> nonfiction. Historical fiction and creative nonfiction are two
> completely different genres and styles of writing, and again, HF is made
> up people and/or events framed with real people and events, whereas
> creative nonfiction is completely nonficction- not made up or
> embellished.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
>
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> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 23:24:25 -0700
> From: Eve Sanchez <3rdeyeonly at gmail.com>
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> As Dr. Gregory House says Everybody lies." A politician does not want to
> be
> called a lier, but if the shoe fits. Much of creative nonfiction is not
> about someone's personal experiences, but rather something that happened
> in
> past history. It, in most cases, is impossible to know what those long
> dead
> characters said, or ate, or wore on a certain day. Yet if these things
> were
> not presumed to the best of the authors ability through research of what
> is
> known about time period and/or incident concerned, the books would be
> awfully boring. I for one am thankful for the creativeness of the
> authors
> of creative nonfiction to weave such lies.  A word that is not so harsh
> as
> lye,but just as cleansing. Diolch, Eve
>
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